Welcome to another Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. GBBD is hosted by May Dreams Gardens. If you would like to participate you just have to post your GBBD on the 15th and then leave a comment on May Dreams Gardens.

Wow - a bilingual post or rather trilingual if we count the Latin names. I'm impressed! I'll have to show my son as he's chosen Spanish as his second language at school after sampling French, Latin, Japanese and Hebrew at other stages. He's enjoying Spanish.

Your garden is lovely and the blooms so interesting. I echo joco above - we've had a very wet, cold spring in England but at least the sun is out now. Thanks for sharing your sunshine.

I haven't been here in awhile; it's so interesting to see the different blooms around the world. But the purple coneflower and salvia look very familiar:) I really like those dainty blue flowers. Great post!

Your garden is still overflowing with color, and that Cistus is a shot of wow-pink. It is strange that your Bearded Iris is still blooming. I think I have the same allium. It's flowers are still in the skin.

Although my part of Austin has a lot of shade, there are places in the Hill Country to the west where the land looks more like yours. All over central Texas people grow some plants in common with yours, including coneflowers, salvias and pomegranates. Gaura lindheimeri comes from this area, and there are lavender festivals nearby. I guess we are trying to be Mediterranean, too, but there are only lakes formed by dams here - no oceans!

Your weather sounds like mine-only in the fact that some blooms are lingering longer and some delayed. The whole season here is at least 2 weeks behind the usual, but I'm glad it's here, regardless! You sure have a nice assortment of blooms there! Happy Bloom Day! (Heh...I'm always late! :)